New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series of historical mysteries set in Brighton in 1950 in post World War II England and introducing Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens - when the body of a girl is found cut into three pieces Stephens realizes the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl, invented by Max Mephisto, with whom Edgar served in the war as part of a shadowy unit called the Magic Men. The Guardian in its Best Crime Novels Round-Up commented "With a labyrinthine plot, a splendid reveal, and superb evocation of the wafer-thin veneer of glamour at the bottom end of show business, this is thoroughly enjoyable." 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0544527942.